GLOUCESTER ROOM
selection of works for Mrs Alka Singh
This catalogue features a selection of paintings in oil and wax on linen by Brendan Burns, available for initial viewing, by appointment, at Gloucseter Room.
GLOUCESTER ROOM
5 New Cavendish Street London W1G 8UT Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm 020 7935 1114 info@gloucesterroom.com @gloucester_room_london
Dimensions: 150 x 170 cm
£21,000
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Rhapsody II
Oil and wax on linen
Oil and wax on linen
Dimensions: 100 x 120 cm
£13,800
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Flare
Oil and wax on linen
Total dimensions: 200 x 320 cm
Each panel: 200 x 160 cm
Price for the diptych: £48,000
This painting is available for purchase as a diptych or as individual paintings
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Tidal Shimmer I & II
Diptych
Total dimensions:
200 x 320 cm
Tidal Shimmer I & II
Diptych
Tidal Shimmer I – (Left hand panel)
200 x 160 cm £24,000
Tidal Shimmer I – (Right hand panel)
200 x 160 cm £24,000
Oil and wax on linen
Dimensions: 90 x 110 cm
£12,600
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Sizzle
Dimensions: 130 x 160 cm
£21,000
Glisten
Oil and wax on linen
Dimensions: 160 x 160 cm
£22,200
Flaunt
Oil and wax on linen
– Point Lobos Lichen
Oil and wax on linen
Total diptych dimensions: 150 x 240 cm
Each panel: 150 x 120 cm
Price for the diptych: £36,000
This painting is available for purchase as a diptych or as individual paintings
Tender
Diptych
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Total dimensions: 150 x 240 cm
Tender
Point Lobos Lichen Diptych
Tender – Point Lobos Lichen (Left hand panel) 150 x 120 cm £18,000
Tender – Point Lobos Lichen (Right hand panel) 150 x 120 cm £18,000
“My work is not abstract in a formal sense but it has enjoyed a relationship with ambiguity; it is concerned with inner emotion and the sensed experience of the viewer; it is about the contemplative experience of self-reflection
All my work has endeavored to present the clarity, yet simultaneous abstraction of a ‘peripheral’ experience: the afterimage burnt onto the retina, something which is both precise yet ambiguous, fixed yet transitory, permanent yet ephemeral.
I aspire to celebrate nature’s ability to seep absorbed light, almost as liquid colour when dusk sets These works ‘represent’ that connection with our natural world, the most simple and fundamental of human experiences: they give one time to breath. The sculptural encounter with the painting engenders the consistent underlying melodic whisper of the spiritual that has developed in my work
To breathe in memory, thought, serenity, time and contemplation When I ask myself once again, what is the point of making? What does my work do? The point is quite simply to create a work, which allows thought itself to breathe.”
- Brendan Burns, 2023
Brendan Stuart Burns was born in 1963; he currently lives and works in Cardiff He studied Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art (1981 – 1985), and undertook a postgraduate in painting at The Slade School of Art, University College London (1985 – 1987). Burns has exhibited both Nationally and Internationally, including America, France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Spain
His work is held in numerous private and public collections including The National Museum & Galleries of Wales, The Derek Williams Trust, The Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Britain (Tom Bendhem Bequest), America, Australia, China, Holland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and The United Arab Emirates
